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original work | 2002 - 2007

Make Me One With Everything  |  Upcoming Fall 2007

A sound installation and performance work based on the sounds and stories of street vendors in Lower Manhattan, to be performed on sidewalks and in public plazas where commercial vending has been restricted. Conceived by Stephanie Skaff and developed in collaboration with composer Paul Damian Hogan. Make Me One With Everything will be made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund.

Nice to Understand You A TANGENT IN SEVEN PARTS  |  The Old American Can Factory Brooklyn  |  Dec 2005

A site-specific performance installation based on interviews with a machine specialist and conversationalist who lives and works near Gowanus, Brooklyn. Site, sound, movement and text trace the history of a friendship and takes a fragmented walk down memory lane. Conceived by Stephanie Skaff and developed with Johanna Linsley (direction), Paul Damian Hogan (original music/sound), Kelly Kivland (choreography), Nathan F. Elbogen (site/visuals), and Hugo Picciani (text). Performed by Paul Hogan, Kelly Kivland and Stephanie Skaff.  Photos by Tasja Keetman.

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Words Untitled  |  The Old American Can Factory Brooklyn  |  Dec 2004  

A theatre work that employs parallel themes of industry and human isolation to explore identity and individual thought. Incorporating text, song and movement, this excerpt speaks of the fragility of a factory worker as she discovers that she is not mass produced.  Written and performed by Stephanie Skaff.  Photos by Tasja Keetman.  

Additional information at < WWW.XOPROJECTS.COM/ENTITLED.HTML >

Resting Potential  | The Culture Project & The Construction Company New York, NY  |  2002-2003
 

An original solo work incorporating live, interactive sound with text, dance and song to tell the story of an undistinguished woman struggling to find inspiration while maintaining her daily work in a factory. Written and performed by Stephanie Skaff.

We Are Petit Neanderthals | Actor | WOW Cafe NYC | Sep 2004

The Midwest Amalgamated Performance Corp presents this original play written and directed by Melissa Shimkovitz.  With Jesse Janowsky and Stephanie Skaff. Overseen by Erin Pope and Emily Rems.

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Romeo and Juliet | Bond Street Theatre New York, NY | Regional Tour | 2003

Assisted in production and coordination of a collaborative theatre project with a Bulgarian theatre company in the USA, providing technical, logistical, communications and marketing support for the Northeastern tour and corresponding lecture series.

Sound/Word/Movement | The Construction Company New York, NY | 2003

Co-curated and coordinated an evening of original dance theatre works which explored hybrid forms of narrative, dance and live sound by Paula Matthusen (Composer), Stephanie Skaff (Theatre Artist), Nora Stephens (Choreographer), Kathryn Woodard (Concert Pianist).

Lysistrata | The Black Market Group and The Culture Project New York, NY | 2003

Co-organized the staged reading of the anti-war play in cooperation with Theatres Against the War, providing casting, marketing and technical support for the production.

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